For although memories, of a season, for example,Melt into a single snapshot, one cannot guard, treasure...That stalled moment. It too is flowing, fleeting;It is a picture of flowing, scenery, though living, mortal,Over which an abstract action is laid out in blunt,Harsh strokes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The master plan was laid out months ago. Jack Kemp would give 200 rubber-chicken dinners (sometimes it's meatballs or just cocktai...ls) between Jan. 1, 1995, and Jan. l, 1996. What the plan did not say was that he would be expected to deliver the same lines, ingratiate himself to political hangers-on and, most humiliating of all, beg them for money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When men consider the great pains, industry, and parts, that have, for so many ages, been laid out on the cultivation and advancem...ent of the sciences, and that notwithstanding all this, the far greater part of them remain full of darkness and uncertainty, and that, taking all together, a small portion of them doth supply any real benefit to mankind, otherwise than by being an innocent diversion and amusement: I say, the consideration of all this is apt to throw them into a despondency, and perfect contempt of all study.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

He that will consider the infinite power, wisdom, and goodness of the Creator of all things, will find reason to think it was not ...all laid out upon so inconsiderable, mean, and impotent a creature as he will find man to be; who, in all probability, is one of the lowest of all intellectual beings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »